The Appropriations Committee just approved deep cuts to the Health and Human Services Commission and the four departments it oversees. The vote was 16-8. It wasn't quite along party lines, as Rep. Susan King, R-Abilene (right), joined dissenting Democrats.
Chief social services budget writer John Zerwas, R-Spring, said addition of $2 billion from Tuesday's decision to spend rainy-day dollars eased the pain a bit. He said that allowed members to "to get it to a place that's at least a little more comfortable than where we started."
Still, cuts to home-based care for the disabled and seniors, nursing homes, prevention programs for child abuse, programs for developmentally disabled children and health care providers remain far deeper than any belt-tightening taken in the last fiscal crisis in 2003.
Here's the roll call:
Aye: Pitts (chairman), Aycock, Button, Chisum, Crownover, Darby, Gooden, Margo, Miller, Morrison, Patrick, Riddle, Schwertner, Shelton, Torres, Zerwas
Nay: Turner (vice chairman), Giddings, Hochberg, Johnson, S. King, Martinez, McClendon, Villarreal
Present not voting: Dukes
Absent: Eiland, Otto
Source: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2011/03/house-budget-writers-adopt-soc.html
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